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by Sergeant Thorne
Wed Mar 16, 2022 11:15 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Time for War?
Replies: 31
Views: 8297

Re: Time for War?

It's way too convenient that everyone is jumping on the anti Russia bandwagon and either sounding the drums of war or working to "cancel" them. International politics is only this simple in propaganda. Russia has an interest in Ukraine from the perspective of national sovereignty. Not many...
by Sergeant Thorne
Mon Feb 21, 2022 1:11 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Rittenhouse found innocent
Replies: 132
Views: 24926

Re: Rittenhouse found innocent

Ad hominem aside, as I understand your allusion, you see these quotes to be an example of backtracking... Scumbags with fully developed adult brains are out there looting, rioting, committing arson, destroying livelihoods and causing a lot of social unrest, but of course a misguided child is the rea...
by Sergeant Thorne
Mon Feb 21, 2022 12:21 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Rittenhouse found innocent
Replies: 132
Views: 24926

Re: Rittenhouse found innocent

Ferno and Vision, if you two want to be taken seriously you should move beyond simply making sloppy allegations based on inscrutable personal observations (at best), and instead try presenting a complete and defensible point. Ferno you've failed to demonstrate that Spidey is backtracking. I look bac...
by Sergeant Thorne
Thu Feb 17, 2022 11:40 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Rittenhouse found innocent
Replies: 132
Views: 24926

Re: Rittenhouse found innocent

....If we have a society full of Rittenhouses we would be all right. Oh dear God. Are you serious? I can just imagine a society full of hormone raging teen-aged males playing violent video games during the day, then going out and patrolling the streets at night armed to the teeth with semiautomatic...
by Sergeant Thorne
Thu Feb 17, 2022 6:38 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Rittenhouse found innocent
Replies: 132
Views: 24926

Re: Rittenhouse found innocent

I think your characterization comes off as extremely biased and doesn't represent what happened. Most news sources are extremely biased on this topic. Rittenhouse is the enemy to them, and it has nothing to do with how he conducted himself and everything to do with his resistance to the particular a...
by Sergeant Thorne
Sun Feb 13, 2022 9:53 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Rittenhouse found innocent
Replies: 132
Views: 24926

Re: Rittenhouse found innocent

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/11/rittenhouse-testified-he-drove-himself-to-kenosha-without-weapon/ So I was remembering correctly there. The rifle did not cross state lines. The attempt to prosecute based on possession was thrown out because it was not a short barreled rifle, and he was within his...
by Sergeant Thorne
Sat Feb 12, 2022 9:26 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Rittenhouse found innocent
Replies: 132
Views: 24926

Re: Rittenhouse found innocent

Do you happen to have a reference for what he said their intentions were, and the supposed taking the rifle across state lines? If I remember, correctly--and I could find a reference on this too--the rifle did not come with him across state lines--the rifle was in WI. This was why the "rifle ac...
by Sergeant Thorne
Mon Feb 07, 2022 6:34 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Rittenhouse found innocent
Replies: 132
Views: 24926

Re: Rittenhouse found innocent

There were other ADULT men carrying guns that night. None of them shot at anyone, nor were they attacked by anyone in the crowd. Yet this stupid kid was. Why is that? I think it makes the most sense to limit your suggestive inquiry to the incident with Rosenbaum, since everything that occurred afte...
by Sergeant Thorne
Tue Feb 01, 2022 9:29 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Rittenhouse found innocent
Replies: 132
Views: 24926

Re: Rittenhouse found innocent

I think the biggest hole in your argument is that this particular instance of "vigilantism" involves only defensive actions, regardless of who or what is being defended. Is that really the "vigilantism" that you think about when you use the word or take issue with the concept as ...
by Sergeant Thorne
Mon Jan 31, 2022 1:22 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Rittenhouse found innocent
Replies: 132
Views: 24926

Re: Rittenhouse found innocent

I think an argument could be made that things would not have escalated in quite that way had they not been armed, but frankly anyone willing to make that argument should have their property and belongings burned down/up by a mob. This right here is all the proof I need to know you are a terrible pe...
by Sergeant Thorne
Mon Jan 31, 2022 1:02 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Rittenhouse found innocent
Replies: 132
Views: 24926

Re: Rittenhouse found innocent

Anyone who feels the need to travel across state lines uncalled-for toting a military-grade weapon in order to enter into a tense situation is, quite frankly, mentally unhinged. Granted I firmly believe that anyone who owns one of said weapons is mentally unhinged in the first place. A little over ...
by Sergeant Thorne
Sun Jan 30, 2022 10:35 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Rittenhouse found innocent
Replies: 132
Views: 24926

Re: Rittenhouse found innocent

This is how the Rittenhouse case should've been prosecuted, as vigilantism, not self defense. You and everyone else who doesn't LIKE the fact that Rittenhouse and his friends were armed can try to fit that peg into a "vigilantism" hole, but the reason he was acquitted in a court of law wa...
by Sergeant Thorne
Mon Dec 21, 2020 7:31 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Thank you.
Replies: 65
Views: 27914

Re: Thank you.

I'm kind of impressed. It seems like most liberal folks on the net won't go anywhere near allowing that Trump could win. Are you related to Michael Moore? Still, you need to take about 40% off there, TunnelCat. :wink: :mrgreen: <3
by Sergeant Thorne
Sat Jun 18, 2016 10:06 am
Forum: DBB Feedback Forum
Topic: Exit
Replies: 15
Views: 8472

Exit

I don't have a problem with moderation when something gets out of control, personal attacks are involved, or derailing is taking place, but I feel we've crossed into policing opinions or policing perceived insensitivity with this latest Orlando tragedy, and that's not something I'm willing to contin...
by Sergeant Thorne
Fri Jun 17, 2016 5:22 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Ban Muslims, not guns
Replies: 94
Views: 6431

Re: Ban Muslims, not guns

f'kin' psycho. ;)
by Sergeant Thorne
Fri Jun 17, 2016 4:37 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Split from "Ban Muslims, not guns"
Replies: 19
Views: 2639

Re: Split from "Ban Muslims, not guns"

Let's just all appreciate yet again how woody (and now Thorne) are proposing that the victims of a horrific mass shooting share some amount of the blame for not carrying guns themselves. Think on that for a bit. It's official, TG. You have a future in politics. Better wait a few rounds, though. You...
by Sergeant Thorne
Fri Jun 17, 2016 12:07 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Split from "Ban Muslims, not guns"
Replies: 19
Views: 2639

Re: Split from "Ban Muslims, not guns"

Thanks for that, Vision. You're wrong and you've missed the point. The truth is sexual desire is not on the level of physical traits. That's as ridiculous as it is convenient. Furthermore it's a small or dishonest mind that tries to put everyone who doesn't agree with homosexuality in a single box f...
by Sergeant Thorne
Fri Jun 17, 2016 10:28 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Is this socialism's end game?
Replies: 26
Views: 2144

Re: Is this socialism's end game?

"Socialism" is an economic and governmental reality, not a perception. What is the economic and political reality of Venezuela?
by Sergeant Thorne
Fri Jun 17, 2016 10:16 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Split from "Ban Muslims, not guns"
Replies: 19
Views: 2639

Re: Ban Muslims, not guns

I think you need to cut it out altogether Jeff, and deal with it like the rest of us do when we disagree with something. "homophobe" is kind of a bull****, catch-all, negative label for anyone who is anti-homosexuality, at the convenience of the person wielding the term. I wasn't real happ...
by Sergeant Thorne
Fri Jun 17, 2016 7:51 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Split from "Ban Muslims, not guns"
Replies: 19
Views: 2639

Re: Ban Muslims, not guns

Yeah, I thought that was going too far... Krom or Jeff?
by Sergeant Thorne
Thu Jun 16, 2016 10:52 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Anti-gay bigory is really not about religious freedom.
Replies: 19
Views: 2995

Re: Anti-gay bigory is really not about religious freedom.

20 A bruised reed shall He not break, and smoking flax shall He not quench till He send forth judgment unto victory; (speaking of Jesus) 52 and He sent messengers before His face. And they went and entered into a village of the Samaritans to make ready for Him. 53 But they did not receive Him, beca...
by Sergeant Thorne
Thu Jun 16, 2016 10:35 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Anti-gay bigory is really not about religious freedom.
Replies: 19
Views: 2995

Re: Anti-gay bigory is really not about religious freedom.

I am in awe of the way you dispatched each straw-man there more quickly than the last, TC. What does any of that have to do with the quote? :P From your statements, you firmly believe that homosexuality is a punishable abomination against God, as stated in only 2 places in the Bible, which you also...
by Sergeant Thorne
Thu Jun 16, 2016 7:02 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Stating that immigrants is the problem is a distraction
Replies: 40
Views: 3036

Re: Stating that immigrants is the problem is a distraction

I figure we should stop growing that kind of citizen immediately! :P
by Sergeant Thorne
Thu Jun 16, 2016 5:02 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Anti-gay bigory is really not about religious freedom.
Replies: 19
Views: 2995

Re: Anti-gay bigory is really not about religious freedom.

No. Seems you two have an axe to grind that has nothing to do with me or my statements in this topic. ...You figure it out.
by Sergeant Thorne
Thu Jun 16, 2016 4:27 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Anti-gay bigory is really not about religious freedom.
Replies: 19
Views: 2995

Re: Anti-gay bigory is really not about religious freedom.

I am in awe of the way you dispatched each straw-man there more quickly than the last, TC. What does any of that have to do with the quote? :P
by Sergeant Thorne
Thu Jun 16, 2016 8:51 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Anti-gay bigory is really not about religious freedom.
Replies: 19
Views: 2995

Re: Anti-gay bigory is really not about religious freedom.

This is the reason for religious freedom, Flatlander. I am free to follow my convictions, and you yours. My conviction is that the whole of the Bible is God's inspired, and preserved word, showing us God's perspective on the way we should live our lives--showing us how to do what's right. To sum up ...
by Sergeant Thorne
Thu Jun 16, 2016 3:47 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Ban Muslims, not guns
Replies: 94
Views: 6431

Re: Ban Muslims, not guns

A woman with no criminal record was able to buy an effective and reliable multipurpose rifle after 7 minutes thanks largely to electronic databases, and that is apparently one of the worst things ever? Pretty much. Then again I question the basic sanity of anyone who wants to purchase one of these ...
by Sergeant Thorne
Wed Jun 15, 2016 4:49 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Anti-gay bigory is really not about religious freedom.
Replies: 19
Views: 2995

Re: Anti-gay bigory is really not about religious freedom.

And yet the Bible condemns homosexuality as a sin leading to death, so being anti-homosexuality really still is about religious freedom.
by Sergeant Thorne
Tue Jun 14, 2016 9:40 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Ban Muslims, not guns
Replies: 94
Views: 6431

Re: Ban Muslims, not guns

... And they sure as **** shouldn't be able to buy one in seven ******* minutes . 7 minutes could only mean that he was innocent until proven guilty... An AR is a nice gun. I can only hope he took it to the range afterward to do some guilty plinking. ;) I hope he wasn't thorough enough to go shoot ...
by Sergeant Thorne
Sat Jun 11, 2016 8:04 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Think Trump is bad?
Replies: 81
Views: 6977

Re: Think Trump is bad?

With regard to the number of laws in relation to the size of government, a small government does not suffer from the inability to pass necessary laws in order to preserve freedom. The problem is rather the other way around, in reality--that large government ensures an ever-increasing number of laws,...
by Sergeant Thorne
Sat Jun 11, 2016 7:31 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Think Trump is bad?
Replies: 81
Views: 6977

Re: Think Trump is bad?

In this case the devil's advocate is hiding behind the details.
by Sergeant Thorne
Sat Jun 11, 2016 5:50 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Think Trump is bad?
Replies: 81
Views: 6977

Re: Think Trump is bad?

Blow smoke all you want. Not only is he qualified enough to take on the job, which is not a solo gig done in a vacuum, but he specifically wants a VP with political experience. Qualification is not the issue you or anyone else would like to make it out to be. The man has significant leadership exper...
by Sergeant Thorne
Sat Jun 11, 2016 4:10 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Think Trump is bad?
Replies: 81
Views: 6977

Re: Think Trump is bad?

True statement. :P I'll take Trump, and that largely because he's not establishment.
by Sergeant Thorne
Fri Jun 10, 2016 8:33 pm
Forum: DBB Feedback Forum
Topic: Major forum software update.
Replies: 24
Views: 10786

Re: Major forum software update.

Board style set to "Black" from "DescentBB" to check for pagination, and now I can't change it back (actually shows "DescentBB" whenever I go back to the settings page, no matter what I do. What are we paying you for?! ;) EDIT: Closed the browser and re-opened, and now ...
by Sergeant Thorne
Fri Jun 10, 2016 7:39 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Think Trump is bad?
Replies: 81
Views: 6977

Re: Think Trump is bad?

"lunacy of a man in charge"? Maybe barrow your balls back from the feminists long enough to not be such a sexist against your own gender. Lunacy is trading freedom for big government--something that has never actually served the interests of the people effectively. The problem with you fol...
by Sergeant Thorne
Fri Jun 10, 2016 3:08 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Think Trump is bad?
Replies: 81
Views: 6977

Re: Think Trump is bad?

What? You mean like every man in the U.S. would feel like they're being tag-teamed by a couple of damn liberal women? ;) If they held the office with honor, upheld the constitution, brought jobs/industry back to the country, strengthened the courts, and decreased the size of government, I could find...
by Sergeant Thorne
Wed Jun 08, 2016 5:48 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Hermione
Replies: 36
Views: 3214

Re: Hermione

You could totally tear down 90+% of Evangelical Christian Americans using just the Bible. What churches believe and practice today is basically modern American "Christian" tradition, descended from European "Christian" tradition, bearing remarkably little resemblance to the "...
by Sergeant Thorne
Wed Jun 08, 2016 4:54 pm
Forum: DBB Feedback Forum
Topic: Major forum software update.
Replies: 24
Views: 10786

Re: Major forum software update.

Awesome. Thanks for doing it, Krom.
by Sergeant Thorne
Tue Jun 07, 2016 7:16 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Trumptards- THIS is why Hillary will win.
Replies: 15
Views: 1656

Re: Trumptards- THIS is why Hillary will win.

You sound like a bitter, nagging woman. If Hillary is a shoe-in maybe you should move on from the Trump and "Trumptard" bashing to some pre-emptive Hillary bashing.